St. Andrew Cathedral, Silver Spring
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St. Andrew Cathedral is a Ukrainian Orthodox
cathedral
in Silver Spring, Maryland
, United States
. It is the seat of the Archbishop of New York-Washington.
occurred and the church was dedicated in memory of the victims. The church building was finished the following year and it was consecrated on April 24, 1988. It features a mosaic
of its patron St. Andrew on the front exterior wall.
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA is a jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the United States. It consists of three eparchies , ruled by two diocesan bishops, including about 85 active parishes and missions. The Church's current primate is Metropolitan Constantine...
cathedral
Cathedral
A cathedral is a Christian church that contains the seat of a bishop...
in Silver Spring, Maryland
Silver Spring, Maryland
Silver Spring is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It had a population of 71,452 at the 2010 census, making it the fourth most populous place in Maryland, after Baltimore, Columbia, and Germantown.The urbanized, oldest, and...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. It is the seat of the Archbishop of New York-Washington.
History
St. Andrew’s Parish was founded with 65 families in the Washington, DC area in 1949. The community initially met in rented buildings until a building was bought and renovated on 16th Street. The property in Silver Spring was bought in 1986 and a church building was built in the Kozak Baroque style. That same year the nuclear disaster at ChernobylChernobyl disaster
The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine , which was under the direct jurisdiction of the central authorities in Moscow...
occurred and the church was dedicated in memory of the victims. The church building was finished the following year and it was consecrated on April 24, 1988. It features a mosaic
Mosaic
Mosaic is the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials. It may be a technique of decorative art, an aspect of interior decoration, or of cultural and spiritual significance as in a cathedral...
of its patron St. Andrew on the front exterior wall.